“The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.”
Defence of Criminals: A Criticism of Morality (1889)
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British poet and academic 1844–1929Related quotes
“Compared to what human life has mainly been like here on earth, our current societies are WEIRD.”
"Our Narrow Slice", Vsauce (8 October 2013)
"Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 680
The 1930s
“Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 14.
Speech in London (9 May 1888), quoted in The Times (10 May 1888), p. 8.
1880s
Letter to J.H. Tiffany (31 March 1819)
1810s
"Edmund Burke, Anarchist" http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard11.html, first published as "A Note on Burke’s Vindication of Natural Society" in the Journal of the History of Ideas, 19, 1 (January 1958), p. 114.
Context: In 1756 Edmund Burke published his first work: Vindication of Natural Society. Curiously enough it has been almost completely ignored in the current Burke revival. This work contrasts sharply with Burke’s other writings, for it is hardly in keeping with the current image of the Father of the New Conservatism. A less conservative work could hardly be imagined; in fact, Burke’s Vindication was perhaps the first modern expression of rationalistic and individualistic anarchism. … "Anarchism" is an extreme term, but no other can adequately describe Burke’s thesis. Again and again, he emphatically denounces any and all government, and not just specific forms of government. … All government, Burke adds, is founded on one "grand error." It was observed that men sometimes commit violence against one another, and that it is therefore necessary to guard against such violence. As a result, men appoint governors among them. But who is to defend the people against the governors? … The anarchism of Burke’s Vindication is negative, rather than positive. It consists of an attack on the State rather than a positive blueprint of the type of society which Burke would regard as ideal. Consequently, both the communist and the individualist wings of anarchism have drawn sustenance from this work.
“Virtue never has been as respectable as money.”
Ch. 54 http://books.google.com/books?id=XX-wAAAAIAAJ&q="Virtue+never+has+been+as+respectable+as+money"&pg=PA589#v=onepage
The Innocents Abroad (1869)